2006 Ohio Revised Code - 905.36. Inspection fee; tonnage reports.

§ 905.36. Inspection fee; tonnage reports.
 

(A)  A licensee or registrant, except registrants who package specialty fertilizers only in containers of ten pounds or less, shall pay the director of agriculture for all fertilizers distributed in this state an inspection fee at the rate of twenty-five cents per ton or twenty-eight cents per metric ton. Licensees and registrants shall specify on an invoice whether the per ton inspection fee has been paid or whether payment of the fee is the responsibility of the purchaser of the fertilizer. The payment of this inspection fee by a licensee or registrant shall exempt all other persons from the payment of this fee. 

(B)  Every licensee or registrant shall file with the director an annual tonnage report that includes the number of net tons or metric tons of fertilizer distributed to nonlicensees or nonregistrants in this state by grade; packaged; bulk, dry or liquid. The report shall be filed on or before the thirtieth day of November of each calendar year and shall include data from the period beginning on the first day of November of the year preceding the year in which the report is due through the thirty-first day of October of the year in which the report is due. The licensee or registrant, except registrants who package specialty fertilizers only in containers of ten pounds or less, shall include with this statement the inspection fee at the rate stated in division (A) of this section. For a tonnage report that is not filed or payment of inspection fees that is not made on or before the thirtieth day of November of the applicable calendar year, a penalty of fifty dollars or ten per cent of the amount due, whichever is greater, shall be assessed against the licensee or registrant. The amount of fees due, plus penalty, shall constitute a debt and become the basis of a judgment against the licensee or registrant. For tonnage reports found to be incorrect, a penalty of fifteen per cent of the amount due shall be assessed against the licensee or registrant and shall constitute a debt and become the basis of a judgment against the licensee or registrant. 

(C)  No information furnished under this section shall be disclosed by any employee of the department of agriculture in such a way as to divulge the operation of any person required to make such a report. The filing by a licensee or registrant of a sales volume tonnage statement required by division (B) of this section thereby grants permission to the director to verify the same with the records of the licensee or registrant. 
 

HISTORY: 132 v H 280 (Eff 7-1-68); 133 v H 1 (Eff 3-18-69); 146 v H 651. Eff 10-29-96; 151 v H 66, § 101.01, eff. 6-30-05.
 

The effective date is set by § 612.12 of 151 v H 66. 

 

Effect of Amendments

151 v H 66, effective June 30, 2005, in (A), substituted "twenty-five cents per ton or twenty-eight" for "twelve cents per ton or thirteen"; and rewrote (B).